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Current Role(s): 
CEO Drupal Solutions
UniMity Solutions Pvt Limited
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shyamala

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English
French
Hindi
Tamil
Telugu

On Drupal.org for 17 years 5 months

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Bio: 

Passionate about harnessing Open Source technologies for building enterprise solutions that are practical and effective. Specializing in Drupal - an Open Source Platform for Content Management and high interactive and intuitive Community web Portals. Experienced Site builder, Drupal technical architect and Project Manager. Have been working on Drupal since D4 and glad to see it evolve to an Enterprise Class platform. Developed multiple products on the Drupal for Offshore and Indian clients. In addition to core Drupal, proud to have envisioned and created BrandConnect and BeadBasket – our own proprietary solutions that use Drupal and deliver user engagement and content consumption solutions.

While the innovation on the platform side is immensely fulfilling for an IT professional like me, what is probably more gratifying is the fact that that I am building the Drupal community by taking in PHP developers and training them to be Drupal rockstars! Through our immersive training program with continuous assessment and hands-on training, even with little or no Drupal background, we ensure that our Drupal developers are the best in the business.

An Engineer by qualification from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras - one of India’s premier technology institutions. Co-Founder and Director at UniMity Solutions, based in Chennai, India.

Drupal Contributions: 

I have been an active participant in the online Drupal Community and have made contributions to the enhancements, usage and adoption of Drupal. I have also contributed as a member of the QA team, for the Drupal redesign initiative in 2010 and as Project Manager for the D8 mobile initiative.

I have been a founder member in setting up an informal community for Drupalers in Chennai and have helped build a network of Drupal professionals in this area. I have been involved in popularizing Drupal amongst Universities in collaboration with IEEE and Free Software Foundation by way of conducting training sessions for students.

I have participated in major international and national level Drupal conferences and presented case studies and experiences with Drupal platforms.

Served the board of the Drupal Association.
Continue to support community building activities for Drupal. Listening to the voice of the Drupal community, specifically India.

Events spoken at

Areas of Expertise: 
Site builder
Project Manager
Business Development
Coordinate/Facilitate Community Initiatives
Board Member of Drupal Association
Drupal events: 
DrupalCon Chicago 2011
DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014
DrupalCon Asia 2016
DrupalCon New Orleans 2016
DrupalCon Dublin 2016

Credited on 7 fixed issues

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